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Emotional Capitalism is “a dissection of the political project behind methods of city data collection and application, an PLUS: Landlords are cold-blooded, lying, cheating, ruthless, invasive and investigation of the emotional component of the real estate market and a demystification of the idea of social space.” horrible, man claims! ≥ 1920 Baile To July 27 Painter Charles Leblanc’s new exhibition Machinoid, exploring a longtime fascination with cars and their inner smoking everywhere, but soon they’ll be frisking mechanics as well as the relationship between man and “edited” by AL SOUTH Paul Desbaillets your weed at the door so you buy more weed machine, is on at Mile End’s Art Gallery. ≥ M Oh hey, former Montrealer here. It’s Pride season inside. It’s unreal. I suppose I could take a side 5432 St-Laurent By Lorraine Carpenter in Toronto, so, you know, the fascists are out in street, take another street, but I don’t fucking want full force. One rule of Pride that I’d like to see is to! Why? Because it’s my God-given right to walk To Sept. 15 Paul Desbaillets is part of the crew BAN ALL FASCISTS, absolutely. But I think the down any street in this city without somebody The McCord Museum is mounting The Polaroid Project: At the behind the Burgundy Lion pub, second rule of Pride has to be that the word BUSSY searching me! That includes the organizers of Intersection of Art and Technology, a collection of original must never ever be used. B-U-S-S-Y. And that Mural Festival, it includes the police of Montreal, works by 100 international artists, many of them among the which opened its doors in 2008 on is not having the quality of a tiny little bus. That it includes any human being to whom I have done most celebrated artists of the 20th century, along with the the strip of Notre-Dame where Joe is BOY PUSSY. And I remember Montreal being a no harm nor committed any TRANSGRESSION. I am cameras they used. city entirely made up of BOTTOMS, so god knows not culpable to anything under the eyes of the law! ≥ Ghost Beef was just beginning to make 690 Sherbrooke W. there is enough bussy for everyone. But I just don’t But because there is beer for sale you are going the Women’s World Cup on jumbotrons, family activities, some noise. know what the francophone term for that is, and to frisk my fucking person? It’s not the end of the Friday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, $69 kiosks with food, drinks, games, talks, haircuts, tattoos, if it should be banned in the same way that bussy world, but it’s the end of some sort of right when three-day pass, $25/$40/$31 single day tickets July 5–7 massage and more. With its ninth edition, the fest has should be banned. All right. See you later. [BLEEP!] my right to walk down the street without being Fanboys and fangirls please report to Palais des Congrès for expanded to two days, with wellness-focused programming The Concordia BFA grad, who previously co-opened searched is compromised by a corporation and an Montreal Comiccon, a cavalcade of geek culture celebrating on Saturday, and this year the teams are raising money for the Three Monkeys boutique in Cours Mont-Royal M Hi ranters. This is Rocking Rob wishing you all a organization who are afraid of losing a little bit of comics, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and more. This years guests July 6–7 the GOAL Initiative Foundation, which promotes sports and in 2004, drew heavily from football culture when it money. [BLEEP!] The GOAL football-culture festival — a free event at McGill’s great weekend! Okay, my rant today is NERVOSA. include Elijah Wood, William Shatner, Michael Madsen, Tom physical activity by providing equipment to youth sports came to naming and branding the pub: three lions Felton and Lou Ferrigno. Percival Molson Memorial Stadium — promises soccer Yes, Nervosa. I mean the band Nervosa. If anybody organizations in need, among other things. Proceeds from is an image borrowed from the badge of England’s M What’s up Rant Line™? Just to let you in on a ≥ 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, exhibition hall 1–8 p.m. tournaments, screenings of the semi-final and final of hasn’t heard of them, I urge you to check them out. the vendor village will benefit Dans la rue and Share the national soccer team. Nervosa. Amazing Brazilian metal girl band. I mean, little secret, just between you and I: You know how Warmth and Montreal Community Cares. that’s pure metal. And I saw them in an interview— Canada has legalized weed and everything? Well ≥ 475 des Pins W., 11 a.m.–6 p.m. both days, free entry Desbaillets’s latest baby (he’s got a pair of actual they are totally wild out of control and crazy if you look at all the RULES that still apply — for kids) is even more deeply rooted in soccer: the GOAL and NASTY onstage beyond belief, but they have example no smoking in public — or that they want Initiatives Foundation is a charity that raises funds something to say, they are beyond metal — but I to fine you and jail you because you are buying July 10–28 to support school sports, primarily through the weed from your dealer instead of one of the SQDC The Just for Laughs comedy fest brings in heavy-hitters annual GOAL football culture festival, which is right saw them in an interview and I tell you, they are stores.